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Should a Christian be Concerned about Curses Today?

In the Old Testament we find the concept of a curse given frequently. The
first time a curse is mentioned in the Scripture is in the account of God’s
confrontation of Adam and Eve after they are tempted and fell. God first
cursed the serpent (Gen 3:14-15), and the ground (v.17). This resulted in the
woman having pain in childbirth and man toiling for a living (by the sweat of
his brow.)

After Cain killed his brother Abel God spoke to Cain, “ So now you are
cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's
blood from your hand” (Genesis 4:11).

After the flood, Noah drank of his vineyard and was drunk and Ham came in
and saw his father naked. When Noah awoke and realized what had happened he
pronounced a curse on Canaan “Cursed be Canaan, A servant of servants shall
he be unto his brethren” (Gen 9:25). While this verse has been discussed
vigorously what it means in all its aspects, what we do know that Canaan will
be Shem’s servant as the preceding verse says.

In Genesis 12:2-3 the Lord says to Abram, “I will make you a great
nation; I will bless you and make your name great; And you shall be a
blessing. “I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses
you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” In other
words, Israel that comes from Abraham will be the apple of his eye. God will
deal with man and nations on their position of being for or against Israel.
(Deut. 32:9-10; Zech. 2:8-9; individually Ps.17:8).

As the Abrahamic covenant was further outworked we find Isaac blessed his
son Jacob and pronounced a curse on those who would came against him. Genesis
27:29: “Cursed be everyone who curses you, And blessed be those who bless
you!”

In his affliction Job was losing heart and pronounced a cursed his birth.
Job 3:1-3 “After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his
birth. And Job spoke, and said: “May the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said, A male child is conceived.”

Balaam the soothsayer was hired by Balak, the king of Moab, hoping he would
pronounce a curse on his enemies the Israelites (Num. 22-24). Balaam could not
curse the people that God had blessed. Goliath, the Philistine when
challenging Israel, “cursed David by his gods” (1 Samuel 17:43), that didn’t
seem to work, it backfired on him.

After the city of Jericho is conquered “Then Joshua charged them at that
time, saying, “Cursed be the man before the LORD who rises up and builds
this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and
with his youngest he shall set up its gates” (Joshua 6:26-27).

In the act of treachery by the Gibeonites, “Then Joshua called for them,
and he spoke to them, saying, “Why have you deceived us, saying, ‘We are
very far from you,’ when you dwell near us? Now therefore, you are cursed,
and none of you shall be freed from being slaves--woodcutters and water
carriers for the house of my God” (Joshua 9:22-24). The curse was in
reference to their slavery. The Gibeonites were a Canaanite tribe which some
recognize as a reference to the outworking of Noah’s curse (Genesis 9:25).

The Lord himself deals with Israel as a nation. His Mosaic covenant was
conditional and depended on the nations obedience. Deuteronomy 28:45-46: “Moreover
all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until
you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the LORD your God, to
keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. And they shall
be upon you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.”

This was a pronouncement upon the nation if they did not obey. Keil &
Delitzsch’s Commentary states “the curse is proclaimed in all its
extent, as covering all the relations of life, in a sixfold repetition of the
word “cursed” (vv. 16-19, as above in vv. 3-6); and the fulfilment of this
threat in plagues and diseases, drought and famine, war, devastation of the
land, and captivity of the people, is so depicted, that the infliction of
these punishments stands out to view in ever increasing extent and
fearfulness. We are not to record this, however, as a gradual heightening of
the judgments of God, in proportion to the increasing rebellion of Israel, as
in Leviticus 26:14 ff., although it is obvious that the punishments threatened
did not fall upon the nation all at once” (from Keil & Delitzsch
Commentary on the Old Testament).

All the curses mentioned in Deut. 28 are applied to Christians today by
those who promote the teaching of generational curses. Though they admit that
curses are not the cause of every problem in ones life, there really is
nothing exempt. Whatever problem you might have can probably be traced back to
a past curse. Marriage problems, divorce, a series of accidents, poverty and
unusual deaths or circumstances in your family are all due to curses. So, it becomes a matter
of guesswork; you pick and choose which problem or affliction is by a curse
(some or all of them). The teaching of generational curses claim that God will reveal the curse by your praying,
the Holy Spirit will show you what in the past needs to be broken. However, this can be very subjective and
is often interpreted by ones feelings or supposed “words of knowledge.”
Will God’s Spirit identify to us something that is not taught in God’s word? To
some there are no boundaries and anything goes, even in the face of Scripture.
After Jesus died He left to go back to heaven and He gave us the Bible through
those, He appointed to write it (2 Cor. 4:6). To go beyond His written word and
invent something that is supposedly so powerful to affect people’s lives
actually shows contempt for His word.

Proverbs 28:27: “He who gives to the poor will not lack, But he who hides
his eyes will have many curses.”

Malachi 3:10: “In what way have we robbed You?’ In tithes and
offerings. You are cursed with a curse, For you have robbed Me, Even
this whole nation.” God’s solution to reverse this conditional
pronouncement of judgment on Israel, “Bring all the tithes into the
storehouse, that there may be food in My house, And try Me now in this.”

The death sentence was for those who cursed their father or mother (Exodus
21:17) or the ruler of his people (Exodus 22:28). “You shall not curse the
deaf, nor put a stumbling block before the blind, but shall fear your God: I
am the LORD” (Leviticus 19:14). Leviticus 20:9: “For everyone who curses
his father or his mother shall surely be put to death.” Hebrew- qalal.
a primitive root; to make light, literally or figuratively (easy, trifling,
vile, etc.): bring into contempt, despise. Blasphemy, or cursing God, was a
capital crime in Israel. We see this also mention in Proverbs 20:20 (Numbers
5:23; curses in the covenant-Deut 29:21; 2 Chron. 34:24; Jer. 15:10).
Similarly there is prophecy, “There is a generation that curses its father,
And does not bless its mother. There is a generation that is pure in its own
eyes, Yet is not washed from its filthiness” (Proverbs 30:11-12).

Today you have people in the occult that (especially voodoo) that
supposedly can send a curse on another person. The curses mentioned in the
Bible are not like this. What we need to understand is that a curse or
blessing were both kept by God’s power; not mans. Many curses (and
blessings) were spoken directly
by God or through his servants prophetically. Curses pronounced on individuals
(9:25; 49:7; Deuteronomy 27:15; Joshua 6:26) do not always convey revenge, but
are predictions. For example Deut.30:6: “And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the
heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and
with all your soul, that you may live. Also the LORD your God will put all
these curses on your enemies and on those who hate you, who persecuted
you.”

If we were to claim that curses pronounced in the Old Testament are still
in effect we would also have to implement the punishments such as in Leviticus
20:9. It should be obvious that some were specifically for the nation Israel, for
a certain people at a certain time. (The only curse we all share in
today is the one God gave in the Garden of Eden.) There are statements that
related to Israel under the covenant that they had with God specifically in
the Old Testament. For example in Joshua 8:30-35 at Mount Ebal, when the Book
of the Law of Moses was read and all of Israel, its elders and officers and
judges, stood on either side of the ark before the priests, the Levites, who
bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger as well as he who was
born among them. Half of them were in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them
in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before,
that they should bless the people of Israel. V.34 “And afterward he read all the
words of the law, the blessings and the cursings, according to all that is
written in the Book of the Law.”

Scriptures in the Old Testament such as Exodus 34:7 and Numbers 14:18 are
used by the teachers on curses to verify the generational sins of our ancestors.
Exodus: 34:7: “Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and
transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty;
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the
children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.”
This is repeated in Numbers:14:18: The Lord is longsuffering, and of great
mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the
guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third
and fourth generation.” He says, He will not clear the guilty up to
the fourth generation- but He also says that God will forgive
their iniquity and transgressions.

A sin that is committed, such as i.e. the father being an
idolater or an alcoholic will often affect the children growing up. If he is
physically abusive to his wife or children, the child will often be influenced
in this. Even though the sins of God's people would have bad consequences
throughout generations, there was grace and mercy given to any individual on
the basis of their personal repentance. In other words, if one repents and
follows the ways of the Lord, the bondages that would have been passed on by
their bad influences to the next generation are broken. Simple isn’t
it? We don’t need to hold our ancestors responsible for a curse
brought on us today. We also need to note that in both Exodus 34:7 and Numbers
14:18, God is dealing with a nation, a people according to His covenant of law. His
covenant was conditional. Obedience brought blessings and breaking the
commandments brought curses. But we can thank God there is an easy way today
to break this sinful training passed on to the next generation-- Jesus Christ.
In the Old Testament they were told to bring up your child
in the way of the Lord, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when
he is old he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). God's Word gives us
the instructions and guidance to have His blessing continue. In the Old Testament He
commanded His people to teach His Word to their children throughout the day
(Deut. 6:6-9). Even in the New Testament Paul wrote: “Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath, but
bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4).

We also have the principle in the Old Testament that God does not punish
the innocent for the guilty. Ezekiel 18 addresses: “The son shall not bear
the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the
son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon [the righteous], and the
wickedness of the wicked shall be upon [the wicked]” (Ezekiel 18:20). God’s
mercy is always greater than his judgment; grace is above law. Ezekiel makes
it clear God does not punish the sons for their fathers’ sins, but that “the
soul who sins shall die (for its own sins).”

Many use the Scripture that says, “visiting the iniquity of the
fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations.” Exodus
20:5-6: “You shall not bow down to them (images) nor serve them For I the
Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the
children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but
showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.”

God always gave Israel time to return to Him before He would execute judgment.
We are told that God visits “the iniquity of the fathers
on the children to the third and fourth generations” WHO HATE HIM. If
one reads the Scripture carefully, they will find that curses where God is “visiting
the iniquity on the third and fourth generation” are in reference to
continual idolatry being practiced (Deut. 5:10) and not repented of. Again
this is God's promise under the Old Covenant, not the New.

The New Testament Breaking of Curses

Everyone at one time or another because of circumstances that seemed so bad
probably had the thought run through their mind, “am I cursed.” If you
listen to some of the popular teachers today it just may reinforce this false
thought. With all the books and teachings on Generational Curses, familiar
spirits, family curses, that hinder the work of God
in a region or country, or ones own family. One wonders how anyone can survive this onslaught of
the enemy from the past. Generational repentance is taught as the method needed to break
these curses, spiritual mapping is used to target the strongholds the enemy
has had in the family along with a host of other non-biblical teachings. Even people
who are poor need to break the curse of poverty, because it is blamed on a curse placed on
your family finances somewhere in the past. If poverty is always a curse, then we
have a whole continent[s] that is cursed. Furthermore, we must admit the
apostles had a curse, because they were poor. They say so themselves (1
Corinthians 4:11-12; Acts 3:6). Jesus asked the rich man to give away
his goods to the poor (Mark 10:21-22). We do not see him
break a curse of poverty for people who are poor, in fact the Bible says the
poor are rich in faith (James 2:5), which is what is needed to be pleasing to
God. In the beginning of the Church the apostles received a
large amount of goods and money which they distributed “according to each
person’s need” (Acts 2:45). Romans 15:26: “For it pleased those from
Macedonia and Achaia to make a certain contribution for the poor among the
saints who are in Jerusalem.” When Paul took money from one church to help
another, he had nothing to say about a curse of poverty. Why do some people
read into Scripture what is not there? I could go on and on and cite many more
examples to see the silliness of this teaching, but this should be sufficient
to see it is correct.

It is not my intention to address any specific teachers philosophy on this
subject but in general look at the common teaching shared by them all. Today, the
teaching of curses it has been popularized by Neil Anderson, Joyce Meyers,
Marilyn Hickey, Larry Huch, Benny Hinn, Cleansing Streams and many more. You
will find that 90% of their teaching on curses is from the Old Testament, Why?
Because you cannot justify this teaching by New Testament! There are some who
have written books and devoted their whole ministry to taking care of a curse
that is not mentioned in the New Testament.

In the New Testament, in Jesus’ ministry He cursed only one thing-- the
fig tree, saying, “Let no fruit grow on you ever again,” and the fig tree
withered (Mt. 21:19; Mark 11:14).

He also spoke about curses from people. In
the onlyreference in the New Testament where He tells us what
to do if someone cursed us, Jesus said, “Bless those who curse you, and pray
for those who spitefully use you” (Luke 6:28). He did not give us fancy
methods, or special words on how to break curses. He taught the believers
specifically how to deal with curses without any superstitious teachings that
would bring fear of an evil that would occur to them. BLESS THEM. In other
words-- do good to them by your actions; try to reach them. Jesus did not give
a supernatural spiritual solution but a very practical one-- do what they would
have done by someone who is their friend and cares for them.

Why do these teachers disregard Jesus’ own words of what we are to do if
people curse us? They produce a false teaching that leads you away from the simplicity in
Christ.

People a who are very zealous and intend on purging themselves to reach a
higher degree of sanctification are susceptible to these type of teachings.
They desire to be purified from all the things of the Devil, so they go on
this journey of discovery to release themselves of anything that would block this
freedom. Eventually one can find a curse behind every problem they have. Just
like those in deliverance ministries blame nearly everything that goes wrong
on Demonic activity. Something goes wrong and immediately you think its the
outworking of some curse. This becomes a very unkind teaching that actually punishes those who
are going through in fiery trials. Any, hurtful, negative or critical word spoken can become
a curse on your life. What a way to live. It’s like avoiding the cracks in
the sidewalk.

There are only a few times the word curse, curses or cursed occurs in the
New Testament. The word curses is found only once in the New Testament
and it is referring to an Old Testament law (Exodus 21:17; Leviticus 20:9). In
Mark 7:8-13 (also Matthew 15:3-5) Jesus said to the Pharisees who neglected
their family feigning their dedication for the things of God, “All too well
you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. For Moses
said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who curses father
or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘If a man says to
his father or mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is
Corban” (that is, a gift to God), then you no longer let him do anything for
his father or his mother, making the word of God of no effect through your
tradition which you have handed down.” At this time they were still under the law which
punishment was death, as Jesus reminded them to show that they were not
obeying the law.

Jesus taught, “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your
neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, bless
those who curse you” (Matthew 5:43-44). Paul repeats this to the church
in Romans 12:14-15: “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.”

James speaking on the right use of our tongue, he explains, (3:9-10) “With
it we bless our God and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made
in the similitude of God.” James is not making aconnection between
what is spoken about someone and these words actually manufacturing a problem
in someone’s life. James is addressing our attitude toward our fellow
man; he is simply saying that if we are still cursing (speaking ill) and this
is not conducive to the new creation in the believer’s life, he may even be
referring to what Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount. We are to have
respect for people because everyone is made in God’s image. There is a
difference between the damage that words do to a person, hurting them
emotionally, to injure or sever a relationship and having a curse come upon
them that will affect their life and others afterwards. To those trained in
word-faith theology this idea of being cursed by words is only an outworking
of their false premise on speaking faith. So if enough negative words are
spoken (heard or not) you have cast a lasting curse that affects another
persons life. Take for example Peter who cursed and denied Jesus during his trial and said he
did not know him (Mk14:71). If a curse had the power that many attribute to them then
what would have become of Peter? It was Jesus himself who restored Peter.

What did the apostles teach concerning generational curses?Nothing!Not once do we see the apostles warn the church about any problem
could be traced to curse from their far past. Can we find a Scripture that
tells us how to identify generational curses and its affect in our lives? No.
This teaching is extra biblical revelation and an additionto
the power of the Gospel to set one free. If one begins a discovery course of
finding out their ailment or problem caused by a curse they certainly can be
overwhelmed. It certainly can rob you of the peace that Christ wants you to
have. If you
allow yourself to receive this teaching, it you will bring you into its
bondage.

The closest concept we have of something being cursed in the New Testament
is by the word anathema. Which means a thing devoted to destruction-
the judgment of God will be exercised on it. The apostle Paul said one is
accursed if they preach a false gospel (Gal. 1:8-9). It is an anathema- this excommunicates a thing or a person
(Rom.1:9) to eternal destruction.

Paul also addresses a “curse,” in a twofold way by stating if you go back
under the law you are cursed. Gal. 3:10: “For as many as are of the works of
the law are under the curse; for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who does
not continue in all things which are written in the book of the law, to do
them.”

The only place in the New Testament where a curse is mentioned is where it
tells us we are free of it, “Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse
for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree” (Gal
3:13).

Paul’s teaching to the Galatians (chapter 3) is that Gentile believers that
submit to
the Law by influence of certain Jews, (the Judaizers) through circumcision or
any other command (“You must be circumcised and keep the law'-- to whom we gave
no such commandment” Acts 15:24), were obligated to keep the entire Law (613 commandments). The apostle Paul
spoke of those who try to keep the law as a curse because no one who cannot
fulfill its complete obligations.Therefore, they who wanted to obey
the law placed themselves under a curse, for it is impossible to keep the
whole Law. This does not mean that all modern-day “Law-keepers” would be under
a curse, but would anyone want to risk this?

Paul further develops his argument on this in Gal. 5:1: “Stand fast
therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be
entangled again with a yoke of bondage (which is a reference to sin and the
law Gal.2:4, 4:3, 9;.5:1; 2 Pt.2:19). Vv.3-4 “And I testify again to every
man who becomes circumcised that he is a debtor to keep the whole law. You
have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; you
have fallen from grace.”

The curse of the law applies to those who want to live by the law instead
of through faith in Christ. Those who live by faith in Christ are bought
out from the curse of the law. No part of the law, nor any ancestral sin
can afflict them if they are in Christ! By the grace of God “Christ has
redeemed us from the curse of the law having become a curse for us” (Gal
3:13). He took our punishment for sin and was cursed in our place.

The “curse of the law” is directly related to the issue of our
justification, which can be understood by studying Galatians 3 in its context.
“So then those who are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham” (Gal
3:9). The curse referred to is failure to keep the Law of God. “ For
as many as are of the works of the Law are under a curse; for it is written,
‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book
of the law, to perform them.’ Now that no one is justified by the Law
before God is evident; for ‘The righteous man shall live by faith.’
However, the Law is not of faith; on the contrary, ‘He who practices them
shall live by them.’ Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law,
having become a curse for us — for it is written ‘Cursed is everyone who
hangs on a tree’ (Galatians 3:10–13).

Christ on the cross became a curse for us (Deuteronomy 21:23) as Paul
refers back to “He who is hanged (on a tree) is accursed of God”
(Galatians 3:13). Deuteronomy 28:15-68 give us the curses that would come upon
Israel for disobedience. The “curse of the law” is not the curses found in
Deuteronomy 28 that was specifically for the nation Israel in the Mosaic
Covenant. The curses in Deuteronomy 28 were temporary curses for the Jews in
the land of Israel when they were disobedient.

It is ludicrous to say that Jesus bore the curses of Deuteronomy 28 on
the cross when we consider the description of some of these curses. “Cursed shall be
your basket and your kneading bowl” (v.17), Cursed “the fruit of your body
and the produce of your land, the increase of your cattle and the offspring of
your flocks” (v.18), The LORD will strike you with consumption, with fever,
with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with scorching,
and with mildew (v. 22), drought (v. 23), defeat by your enemies (v.25) the
boils of Egypt, with tumors, with the scab, and itch, which you cannot be
healed (v.27), madness and blindness and confusion of heart (v.28), the
violation of one’s wife by another man, you will not live in the house you
build nor eat of the vineyard you plant (v. 30), your sons and daughter swill
be given to other people (v.32) cannibalism of your sons and daughters (v. 53)
and more.

Even if one wants to take the position that the “curse of the law” is
Deut.28- then they would also have to take the position that Christ removed the
consequences of them, therefore we have no curse today. However, the “curse
of the law” seems to mean the failure to keep the WHOLE LAW.

Jesus was the fulfillment of the Law that no sinner could keep. Christ the
perfect man fulfilled the law to its minutest requirement. He as a man kept
the law perfectly as God would and took the punishment for not keeping the law
(the curse) as sinful man, fulfilling the justice God requires for breaking
His laws. Christ in a judicial sense became a curse for us on the cross.

Rom.10:4-5 tells us, “For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone who believes.” Moses wrote, “The man who does those things
shall live by them.” We that are New Covenant believers do not live by the
laws requirements for blessings or curses, so we cannot come under a Old
Testament curse. We
are “IN Christ,” who has redeemed us by fulfilling the righteous
requirements of the law, including the penalty for not keeping it. Christ has delivered
us from the law (Rom.7:1-6; Gal.2:19-21) that we might receive His Spirit
by faith and be set free from the law of sin and death (Rom.8:2-4). This
includes any curse that would come because of disobedience to the law. You
cannot hold the position that we are justified by faith in Christ, not by the
works of the law,and thenteach that the law and
its curse still apply today to New Testament believers that are under
grace.

The judgment due to us for our sin is removed when we believe in
Christ. The teachers of curses claim that God forgives us of our own
sin, but not the sins of our ancestors, God’s curse comes on youbecause
of their failure.The New Testament teaches us thatGod does not
remember yoursins, but He remembers the sins of
your ancestors and they are applied to you. So then what significance does the
cross actually have? The curses that are from of your ancestors’ sins continue
are active and affectdamage to your life today.

In Ephesus people were delivered from the occult and witchcraft (Acts
19:10), by hearing the Gospel. When they burned their magic books this would
have been a perfect time to break any curse from the occult but it was not
necessary.

If one is involved in the Occult or Witchcraft they giving the
devil a stronghold, an opening, to have power over their lives (Christian or not).
Some deliverance ministries have you speak a prayer of renunciation to reject and disown all the
sins of your ancestors and cancel all demonic power that has been passed on to
you from your ancestors. While a prayer of renouncement may sometimes be applicable
for certain people who have been entrenched in the occult or witchcraft, this
really has no correlation with the ancient sins of ones relatives. Certainly,
in the Occult, familiar spirits are active in the family and children can be susceptible to their influences. But all this
has a direct cause and effect. It is not something that has traveled through
time to you today by demonic spirits from someone you never knew and now you
are reaping their judgment. It is related to ones own involvement in the
Occult.

The Bible says, “If God be for us, who can be against us?…Who
shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God who justifies
…Who is he that condemns?”(Rom.8:31, 33-34). He has
justified and cleansed us through the blood of His Son having redeemed us from
the curse of the law. We are not condemned by it. No weapon can touch the
saint that puts his trust in God. Curses that are spoken cannot affect a
Believer. Certainly what we see and hear can affect us if we allow it to. Your reaction to
these words will make the
difference. If you do not
accept ill words, or give importance or merit to them they will not plague
your mind to affect you. Our warfare begins in the mind. We should Believe God before we believe anyone who
speaks contrary. Its is God that allows the trials and the testing of our faith, not some
outworking of a curse or demonic presence from our lineage.

For those who think there are curses passed on from each generation,
Scripture states those who are in Christ have been delivered from all the
power of darkness and the wicked one cannot touch them (Col. 1:12; 1 John
5:18). No curse can go through the cross of Christ and have dominion over
those who are in Christ. We are not under a curse once we have come through
the cross. Every spiritual blessing is for us who are in Christ Jesus (Eph.
1:3). Anyone that insists they are cursed needs to know who they are in
Christ, and maybe who Christ is as well. “We have not received the spirit
of bondage again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption, where we cry, Abba,
Father!” (Rom.8:15).

These type of deliverance ministries are not bringing a stop to curses but
perpetuating them. Those who impose the law and its consequences upon believers deny the power of
the gospel to set them free by grace. Deliverance teachers of “generational
curses” teach that Satan and his demons continue to create problems for
Christians because of ones ancestors. More accurately, curses may demonically
inspire fear. The church does not need to accept this; this only meant to
deceive the ungrounded Christian. This teaching on curses is bringing people back
into bondage and fear! We as believers “have not received a spirit of fear
but power, love and a sound mind.”

At the judgment seat on earth we see what God’s curse actually means, “Then
He (Jesus) will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me, you
cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels”
(Matthew
25:41-42). As the Psalmist wrote (Psalms 37:22) “For those blessed by Him
shall inherit the earth, But those cursed by Him shall be cut off.” The
apostle John saw a day coming when “there shall be no more curse” on the
earth (Rev. 22:3); the original curse from God on the earth will be removed
for all those whose names are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. What a day
that will be!

Try to break a curse (that is not there) and you lose your blessing that is
there by grace. It’s your choice, go under a law that is not to be obeyed,
or stay in grace where all our spiritual blessings are found in Christ.

If Jesus broke the curse, how can we who believe in Him have a curse? Did
Jesus remove our sins by the cross or only some of them? Did Jesus
remove the curse against man for not fulfilling the law by the cross or only part of it? This is what
needs to be answered. Does His blood not cleanse all things as it says in the
Bible? “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin” (I
John 1:7). Salvation can also mean
deliverance. Those who have accepted His message are translated from the power
of darkness into the Kingdom of God’s beloved Son. That is what the Bible
says, and no mans teaching should be given priority over this. “If anyone is
in Christ, he is a new creation. Old things are passed away and
behold ALL things have become new!” It all points to Jesus Christ
crucified-- Jesus Christ and Him crucified gives us victory.

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